House Fey: While obviously not true in a literal sense, given the prevalence of AI house brains capable of self-development, houses tend to develop a fair bit of personality over time. And so, talking to the intelligence of a smart house with a few centuries or millennia of run-time under its belt can, on occasion, seem quite like dealing with a rather eccentric domovoi.
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Trope-a-Day: Living in a Furniture Store
Living in a Furniture Store: Played fairly close to straight in most advanced civilizations. This is what a self-aware, AI-driven home and extensive household robotics does for you – everything’s clean and organized and nice, and apart from the odd robot zooming through making it happen, without you having to lift a finger or indeed, take much notice. Although some occasional thanks is considered polite.